Silent Install with Response File on 16-color win2k server

I'm trying to install Oracle9i, Personal Edition on a win2k machine. The machine has plenty of horsepower (800MHz, 1GB RAM, 25GB free drive space) but no graphic capability (ancient 16-color monitor). Oracle says you need to be running at least 256 colors, which I can not. So, I ran an install on a different machine in record mode. I edited the resulting record file and set to "false" anything I could find that was going to try and pop a window. I called the file orasetup. BTW, I'm installing from the three 9i download file that have been properly expanded on the disk.

I go to the disk1 directory and run setup -responsefile orasetup -silent The drive chugs for a few seconds and then......nothing. This is the same behavior I experienced when I initially tried to run a "normal" install on the same box. Does anyone know if Oracle really hardcoded a 256-color requirement in their install program? How would you setup a database server on a terminal-based machine?? Also, is there an install log file that gets generated and if so, does it still get generated if the install pukes due to non-pretty monitors?

Any help would be much appreciated,
Tyler Reed
treed7_at_columbus.rr.com Received on Sun Feb 16 2003 - 22:23:41 CST